20-year chunks
- At February 15, 2012
- By Nathan
- In Meeting Needs
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Life is too large to live, or even think about living, in one large chunk. Even 24 hours is too much to deal with all at once. Our batteries can only run for so long, approximately 16 hours, before they need to be recharged. The Energizer bunny might have been able to keep on going and going but we can’t. Most people are only conscious, make that semi-conscious, for 66% of their existence. If you live to be 60 years old, you will spend about twenty of those years in a comatose state recovering from the other forty. Does being alive ever strike you as being incredibly strange?
Breaking life down into smaller chunks is not easy though. For there are approximately 65 different ways of going about it, and each method is no doubt advocated by someone with a Ph.D. who has written 14 books, etc. But they all tend to sound arbitrary and forced after a while; that is, if they are presented as the one and only possible approach to life. Self- help books, phases and all, can be helpful but not when presented as bedrock truth claims that seem to hang in the air. But maybe I am going through the phase-doubting phase.
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